Benoit Pouliot and Martin St. Louis scored New York's goals. Dustin Brown beat Henrik Lundqvist 8:46 into the second period, and despite outshooting and outattempting the Rangers the rest of the way, the Kings couldn't come all the way back. They nearly managed it with a little more than a minute left, when the puck made it to the goal line and simply sat there.

DANGER, ARDI

At the risk of beating a dead horse, it was another rough night for Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi. There were a few instances in which he looked particularly bad, and the numbers back that up, but nothing could top Jeff Carter blowing his doors off in the second period.

We've talked about the long-term problems Girardi could present for New York. In the moment, though, he's an accident waiting to happen. New York rightly dropped center Brad Richards to the fourth line for Game 4, and they should do something similiar with Girardi.

Anton Stralman would be an obvious choice; he's been better than Girardi for a while now. The problem, though, is that he and Marc Staal are also playing huge minutes, particularly against Anze Kopitar's line.

As for Carter, that was his second near-miss of the game. The first game on a puck that had beaten Lundqvist and stopped on the goal line. He had two shots at knocking it and somehow missed both. Clearing it out? Stralman.

GOAL NO. 1

After Benoit Pouliot's game-opening goal — a pretty deflection past Quick — the Rangers essentially took a break. At the time, each team had six unblocked shot attempts. Los Angeles took the next nine, with the Rangers adding a few at the tail end. The funniest part of that sequece, though, was Quick getting angry.

FAMOUS PEOPLE

Nothing as great as Bryan Cranston forcing everyone to forget Robert De Niro, as was the case in Game 3. Michael J. Fox and David Duchovny were there, as was Jets defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson.